Short Stories

Sugar and Other Stories

by A.S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting...

Friend of My Youth: Stories

by Alice Munro

The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.

"[Friend of My Youth is]...

Sweet Talk

by Stephanie Vaughn

Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through...

Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers

by Boris Pasternak

An enthralling novelette by Boris Pasternak, the author of Dr. Zhivago, Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers explores how a thirteen-year-old girl ceases to be a child and becomes a woman in Russia just before the Communist...

The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012: Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi

by Laura Furman

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination...

Dogwalker

by Arthur Bradford

Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange–where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet,...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

Introduction by John Banville

James Joyce was the singular figure of modernism, and to this day his grand vision looms large over contemporary literature and the entire Western canon. His stylistic innovations...

Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies

by Nick Fonda & Denis Palmer

Who has never encountered a bully? Who has never told—or been told—a story of a bully? With an uncanny insight into what bullies are all about, Nick Fonda brings sensitivity and even humour to an otherwise...

Chattering: Stories

by Louise Stern

An extraordinary debut collection of stories, which reveal how the world looks when you're young, hip, wild and deaf.

Nothing Like an Ocean

by Jim Tomlinson

The eleven stories in Nothing Like An Ocean confirm the promise of Jim Tomlinson's award-winning debut, Things Kept, Things Left Behind. Set in and around the fictional town of Spivey, Kentucky, the stories...

Angels & Insects: Two Novellas

by A.S. Byatt

In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum...

I Am An Executioner: Love Stories

by Rajesh Parameswaran

An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.

In I Am an Executioner,...

44 Cemetery Road: The Best of Tunku Halim

by Tunku Halim

Evil awaits. In the tangled rows of terrace houses, in the shifting shadows of watching trees, in the gleaming corridors of the shopping mall. It hides in all shapes and guises. Meet the lustful seducer ......

Moments of Light

by Fred Chappell

Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard. These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered...

The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps

by William Styron

The Suicide Run collects five of William Styron’s meticulously rendered narratives based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. In “Blankenship,” Styron draws on his stint as a guard at a stateside...

Samsara

by Irene Black

A dream holiday cruise along the Yangtze River in China forces Alison and Tom to face some uncomfortable truths about their lives, when Tom encounters a young Chinese woman, with "Buddha eyes, skin like moonlight...

The Tent

by Margaret Atwood

A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world’s most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood’s always masterful work.Here Atwood pushes...

This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You: Stories

by Jon McGregor

The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor.

From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean...

The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six

by Jonathon Keats

Marvelous and mystical stories of the thirty-six anonymous saints whose decency sustains the world–reimagined from Jewish folklore.

A liar, a cheat, a degenerate, and a whore. These are the last people one...

PICADOR SHOTS - 'Sonata'

by Jackie Kay

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily...